Friday, March 28, 2014

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - San Francisco 49ers' Culliver arrested on hit-and-run, weapons charges

Friday, Mar 28, 2014 09:16 PM PDT
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San Francisco 49ers' Culliver arrested on hit-and-run, weapons charges 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 09:16 PM PDT
San Francisco 49ers defensive back Chris Culliver stretches before their NFL's Super Bowl XLVII football practice at the Saints facility in New OrleansBy Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver was arrested in California on Friday on felony hit-and-run and weapons charges, authorities said. Culliver, 25, is suspected of striking a bicyclist on Friday morning while driving in San Jose, a city about 50 miles south of San Francisco, and speeding away in his white Ford Mustang, the San Jose Police Department said in a statement. After the collision, Culliver then smashed into the vehicle of a witness who attempted to block Culliver's car from fleeing the scene, police said. The driver was later able to corner Culliver's vehicle until authorities arrived, police said.
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Houston-area man arrested in undercover FBI terrorism sting 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:21 PM PDT
A Houston-area man suspected of leading an anti-government group appeared in federal court on Friday to face charges of trying to rob an armored car with explosives and plotting to blow up U.S. government buildings. Robert James Talbot Jr., 38, of Katy, Texas, was arrested by U.S. agents Thursday after an eight-month federal probe as he was about to rob an armored car with inert explosives provided to him by informants who had entered his group, according to a criminal complaint filed in a U.S. federal court in Houston.
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Why is public support for the death penalty declining? 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:12 PM PDT
Public support for the death penalty is dropping in the United States, although more than half of adults still say they favor it as a punishment for murder. Fifty-five percent of US adults support the death penalty, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released Friday – down from a peak of 78 percent in 1996. The trend coincides with a drop in violent crime in most major cities – something that also peaked in the early-to-mid-1990s, notes Drew DeSilver for the Pew Research "Fact Tank" blog.
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Texas screens jurors for trial of man charged with killing prosecutors 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:48 PM PDT
By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas court on Friday began screening thousands of potential jurors to serve in the October trial of a case that dominated headlines last year, when a man was accused of shooting dead three people, including two prosecutors. Nearly 3,000 people have been summoned to come to the Rockwall County court for the jury panel in the trial of Eric Williams, a former Kaufman County justice of the peace and attorney accused of murdering District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, according to Rockwall County officials. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Eric Williams, 46. McLelland and Hasse had prosecuted Eric Williams for the theft of office computer monitors, which cost him his job and law license.
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2 Britons arrested in oil theft in Nigeria 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:22 PM PDT
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The British High Commission says two British men have been arrested in Nigeria this week in connection with an alleged attempt to steal oil.
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FBI most wanted fugitive arrested in murder of NY mother, toddler 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 02:57 PM PDT
Juan Elias Garcia, an alleged member of the MS-13 gang, seen in picture released by FBIAn accused gang member put on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list this week was arrested on Friday for his role in the 2010 killing of his girlfriend and her toddler son, federal authorities said. Juan Elias "Cruzito" Garcia, 21, a reputed member of the murderous international gang known as MS-13, was taken into custody when he voluntarily returned to the United States to face criminal prosecution, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a press release. Garcia, who has ties to El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Panama, is accused in the execution-style shooting of the mother and child in Central Islip, New York, authorities said. His surrender on Friday - just two days after being put on the most wanted list - was the result of a coordinated effort between Nicaraguan authorities and U.S. law enforcement, which sent aircraft to bring Garcia to New York, the FBI said.
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NJ mom who lived with sons in storage is sentenced 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 02:50 PM PDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The mother of two children who were living periodically in a 5-by-10-foot unit at a New Jersey storage facility has been sentenced to probation.
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Support for the Death Penalty Is Strongest Among Religious White People 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 02:31 PM PDT
Support for the Death Penalty Is Strongest Among Religious White PeopleFewer Americans now favor the death penalty, but support is still strong among religious whites and Republicans. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 55 percent of adults support the death penalty for convicted murderers, while 37 percent oppose it. Whites remain the only racial group in the United States where a majority support the death penalty. A sharp drop in violent crime, greater media attention given to wrongful convictions, and reports of inhumane and prolonged executions are some of the reasons for a shift in public opinion away for supporting the death penalty since the mid-1990s, Pew reports. 
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FBI's 'most wanted' fugitive returned to New York 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 12:32 PM PDT
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI says one of its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" is back in the United States to face murder charges in the killing of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son.
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Ohio woman arrested in husband's poisoning death 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 12:21 PM PDT
CINCINNATI (AP) — A northeastern Ohio woman whose husband died after authorities say he unwittingly ingested a drink spiked with antifreeze was arrested Friday on a murder charge.
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Defendant in Chinatown crime probe in court 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 11:37 AM PDT
San Francisco police patrol the Chinatown district Thursday, March 27, 2014, in San Francisco. Beneath the strings of red paper lanterns and narrow alleyways of the nation's oldest Chinatown lies an underworld, a place with a history of opium dens, gambling houses and gangland murders. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal public defender's office says it cannot represent a key defendant in a criminal case that also includes corruption allegations against a California state senator because of potential conflicts of interest.
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Convict fatally beaten after Greek guard death 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 11:20 AM PDT
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Albanian convict accused of fatally stabbing a prison guard after being refused a furlough to visit his critically ill mother has died in detention after being severely beaten and possibly tortured, Greek authorities said Friday.
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Nicaragua nabs top FBI fugitive 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 10:06 AM PDT
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos (L) and US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch (C) announce that Juan Elias Garcia (on poster) from El Salvador,was added to FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, March 26, 2014Managua (AFP) - Nicaragua has nabbed a Salvadoran gang member on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, a government official said Thursday.
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FBI Nabs Fugitive on Top 10 Most Wanted List 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 09:10 AM PDT
FBI Nabs Fugitive on Top 10 Most Wanted List21-year-old Juan Elias Garcia Surrendered at the US Embassy in Managua
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Man arrested over fire that killed his family 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 08:32 AM PDT
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland said Friday they have arrested a man on suspicion he set a fire at his house that killed his wife and four of the couple's five children. They suspect he wanted the insurance money.
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California state senator arrested in FBI sweep 
Thursday, Mar 27, 2014 11:10 PM PDT
(This March 26 story was corrected to fix typo in Yee's name in last paragraph) By Dan Levine and Sharon Bernstein SAN FRANCISCO/SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A prominent California lawmaker was arrested on Wednesday in an FBI sweep that netted 26 people, a high-profile case that could affect statewide elections and brings to three the number of Democratic state senators who face criminal charges this year. Senator Leland Yee, a former San Francisco supervisor and one-time mayoral candidate, was criminally charged in federal court in San Francisco with two felony counts of conspiring to import and traffic in firearms, and six corruption counts. A criminal complaint posted online by the U.S. Attorney office for the Northern District of California alleges that Yee did favors for an undercover FBI agent in exchange for campaign contributions. The complaint alleges that Yee also offered to facilitate a meeting between the undercover agent and an arms dealer, and discussed the types of weapons that the undercover agent might need.
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